Questions tagged [throttling]
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Is request rate throttling ok for ad bots?
We're using a header-bidding partner for our website, so we're serving ads from multiple demand partners. A lot of these partners have their bots and so our website is getting accessed by them pretty ...
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New hostile web crawler from China throttling server
My server has been crashes several times the last 24 hours by a new extremely aggressive hostile distributed web crawler.
It is hitting over 1000 pages per minute and seems to be crawling all content ...
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Should I return a 429 or 503 status code to a bot?
We are doing some work to block excessive bots. We are throttling requests based on IP. In the past, using IIS, we have returned a 503 error to the client. Someone suggested that a 429 is more ...
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Is there any way to simulate a slow connection between my server and an iPad (without installing anything on the server)?
Some of our webapp users have difficulty on slower connections.
I"m trying to get a better idea of what that "speed barrier is" so I'd like to be able to test a variety of connection speeds.
I've ...
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Any tools to limit my bandwidth to 56k to test how long it takes to load my website? [duplicate]
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How can I simulate a slow connection for page load?
Which software or method could I use to limit my connection speed to 56k or other amounts, and load up a webpage I am ...
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Will Checking Existence Of Email Be Throttled By Email Servers?
As part of a web application I am building, I must check if a particular email address exists. This check may be performed at around 1000 times an hour at a given server. Is there any mail server ...
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My shared-host tells me that they're throttling my website because of MySQL, what can I do?
My shared-host tells me that they're throttling my website because of MySQL, what can I do?
I'm not familiar enough with performance tuning of MySQL, generally MySQL just works for me. What questions ...
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